Friends, if you have followed my blogs you would find that I have been talking mostly on the issues pertaining to youths. Through my poems, short stories or articles, I have always tried to bring out the different facets of their emotions, intelligence and knowledge. I don't know how far I have been successful in reaching to them, but my endeavor shall always be to keep trying, because if I am able to touch even a few, I shall consider myself lucky.

In my career as a teacher, I have witnessed how every year a huge number of students approach me for helping them in appearing for different competitive  exams. It ranges from  U.P.S.C to Banking to Railways to C.D.S and even to the class ‘D’ posts. I feel horrified to find that the same student is appearing for all the exams. For such person getting a job is all that matters and he or she is not at all concerned if he or she is fit for that job. This shows that all the years of education that they have received is a waste because 'if you are not sure and confident about what you want to be, then how can you be confident about the rest of the world."

One of the greatest flaws in our education system,  I have found is that it does not inspire a student to develop an entrepreneurship  mentality. By this I surely don't mean that everybody will become an entrepreneur, no, they will develop an innovative mindset and can start thinking differently. Today you can find 90% of our youths are interested in securing a job after completion of their education. It is not their fault either as this is the "mantra" even their parents have been filling them up with since their childhood. I have found engineers preparing for bank clerical exams and chemistry (honors) students appearing for railways clerical exams.

The situation is very horrifying as people think any job is a necessity to create an earning. Friends, this is the very reason why now-a-days we find so many cases of depression “you are not doing something that you are best at, but doing something that you don't like. There is a great English proverb, “ If you don't do what you like you will be forced to like what you do.”

You may argue that if you follow my advice you may hamper your earnings. I respect your argument, but friends read about the successful people, you will  find, for them enjoyment in  their work was more important and money was only a by-product.

So, friends develop an entrepreneurship mentality, think creatively, try to be innovative and if I could quote Les Brown," You need to have the hunger in you". Yes you need to have the hunger in you of proving yourself not to the world, but to yourself and then the sky will be the limit of your success.

To conclude this blog, I will refer to a great quote that I had read, “If you treat money as God, you will keep running behind it, if you treat money as Dog, you will make it run after you.”

(My next blog will be three conjunct poems on the mentality of the unemployed, the employed and the entrepreneur. Please do read it to understand my complete point of view about the subject.)